On Sat, 28 Jun 2008 21:17:47 +0000, Allodoxaphobia wrote:
> On 28 Jun 2008 19:24:03 GMT, ms wrote:
>>
>> There is nothing wrong with the small TV monitor, or the connections as
>> it plays other movie dvd's fine. As in my OP, I was playing a dvd, not
>> using a VCR tape recorded copy or anything else.
>>
>> After wa****ng, the movie looks the same, from the opening credits
>> screen. the movie is alternately light and darker. The initial 20th
Cen.
>> Fox video and no copy screens are perfectly stable, only every movie
>> screen is a problem.
>>
>> This is the usual commercial dvd, "20th Cent Studio Classics, etc. ".
>>
>> But the film quality sure looks just as you described.
>>
>> A comment on above?
>
> Sure. It's a pirated movie. The "initial 20th Cen. Fox video and no
copy
> screens are perfectly stable" because _that_ section of video can be
> copied from _any_ valid DVD (ergo: Good quality) -- then the pirated
> contents are spliced on past that (ispso facto: Crappy quality.)
>
> IIRC, way back in your OP you memtioned you bought it at either a yard
> sale or flea market -- the favored outlet for pirated material in
> countries where pirated and counterfeit items are more at risk in store
> front slaes.
I doubt anyone making pirates would include the PGC's. More likely that
the APS was somehow activated incorrectly by a fault of the disc being
manufactured. This would cause the rendered video to act like described
but not the PGC. Also the OP should be able to tell the difference between
a DVDR and a ROM just by looking at the working side.
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